Injured by some accident -- perhaps his fall when he sprang past the wife of the man he foully murdered and dropped on the stage -- he was hunted from a swamp into a barn, and he was brought down by a shot from a common soldier's pistol.

They decided unanimously that Arthur was a fool - a Jacobin, a Jesuit in disguise - and that, as loyal Englishmen, they would have nothing to do with a milksop, who ought to be hunted from the country, if England was ever to prosper.

It was known to none save me, and to me it had been a place of refuge and a defence, for in the wildness of my dream I thought that I had been persecuted and hunted from the society of man; and that in that lone cave and that romantic valley, I had found peace and security.